Description
‘Making Sense of It’ by Haley Manchon
Artist: Haley Manchon
Title: ‘Making Sense of It’
Medium: Coloured pencil and watercolour on Dura-lar, coloured pencil and pastel on paper
Dimensions: 7″ x 5″
Framing: Framed in a standard black frame with mat (frame size: 11″ x 9″)
Year of Creation: 2024
About the Artwork:
‘Making Sense of It’ is part of a body of work that reflects on my personal experience with shyness, and the inner conflicts I face in social interactions and relationships.
Drawing portraits like this represent my attempt to understand another person. Regardless of our relationship to someone else, our perception of them is affected by memory, limited context, experiences and bias. Time folds in on itself and compresses into a singular entity. The inevitable distance results in a distorted, incomplete form.
Dura-lar, as a semi-transparent substrate, allows for marks of the drawing to delicately emerge and recede. It is within this soft framework of marks that a floating, impermanent sense of self is presented. – Haley Manchon
About the Artist:
(Artist Bio)
Haley Manchon grew up outside of Philadelphia and received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2018. She is represented by MK Apothecary in Collingswood, NJ, and has her work displayed on the 2nd floor of The People’s Store in Lambertville, NJ. She also is a member of the Colored Pencil Society of America.
She has recently exhibited at Aqua Art Miami for Art Basel, Art Fair 14C in Jersey City, Arch Enemy Arts in Philadelphia, PA; Surreal Salon 16 in Baton Rouge, LA; the 2022 Derwent Art Prize located at Gallery@OXO in London, England; the 12th Annual International Drawing Discourse at UNC Asheville, NC; Salmagundi Club in New York, NY; and with the Colored Pencil Society of America’s Explore This! Exhibitions. She has been a resident artist at Overland Artworks SHELTER, Gilbertsville Expressive Movement and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art’s Currents summer program.